The Law of Attraction

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There is a graveyard of companies and investors who try to grow too fast. Fast growth leads to soft airy wood that doesn't have time to densify. In evolution, dangerous mutations tend to pile up when there is no genetic recombination. Zip's Law applies to almost any field where people get attention for discovering something new.

This episode has little to do with money. But in some ways it has everything to do with money.

That's the riddle I want to unpack.

I want to share a bunch of examples of what one field can teach us about another.

What can we learn from biology that teaches us something about money?

What can we learn from physics that teaches us something about business?

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important. The more fields it shows up in, the more likely it is to be a fundamental and recurring driver of how the world works.